Workmen's advocate., 1887-03-05

work nt majority, i'll idleneSs and sen suous luxury, a minority which cannot even claim any merits Law and Order" are pretexts for throwing man kind into a state of anarchy and all but universal dissatisfaction
 They call wages labor free labor" while it HHd be sold afresh from day to day. in order to continue existence; they call il free cOatrdf when the disinhcr- tied worker has no longer his own means of labor, but must work for an owner of means of labor at a rate of wages which amounts, as a rule, to hardly half of the product of his labor, They call cuptm the one portion of the proceeds of labor which is not conslrmtd, but accumulated for further production, and they omit to mention that 1t k the one portion of the proceeds of labor which is withheld from the iaborcr, of which he is robbed uu- der the permission of law; in short, that capital k the accumulated stealings and pickings from the property of other men. They cali pFopefY what is moi the fruit ones own labor, while there cannot be any other reasonable title to property than work. And this list of hypocritical confusion of terms might be heightened ddidbdUu. In fact, all insti- tutions of society and law are nowadays hypocritiral, and demoralize the public sense of truth and honesty.
 It is the merit of Socialism to have es- tablishcd this new cognition and science. It has cleared up what never could be explained by the old political economy; the cause of commercial crises; of the impuverisiment of the ma jority in every nation; of thes enormousIopposltes i'll the condition of men. It is no longer q marvel why there can be and are hun dredfold mllli0naires' here, and an abject poverty of a mass of proletarians there; why commercial crises are spread like wise over republics and monarchies and ie9potlcal States, over protectionlst and free trade countries, over Protestant, Catholic. and other communities; why all the statesmen and wiseacrcs of the press are utterly unable to suggest a | thorough remedy to commercial depres- l lSiat i,n l If ,lyi nd fn n | ruling class and q ruled class, into all | powerful money kings and moneyed corporations on the one hand, and an l immense majority of panpers, or those who must ultimately become paupers, on the other hand. This riddle is solved by tue school of Karl Marx. The one | great cause of all the ruin of society and States is this, that labor never receives | the full proceeds of it's products; but | must, because it is disinherited, create capital for a minority-the owners of means of labor, of land, buildings, ma chiness, money, etc, by creating surplus calt,e, furnishing surplus i0bor-more labor than is paid for, working surplus | time-more time than is required to de- fray the expenses of it's own sustenance. | And the only thorough remedy is not to work and produce more than what can he consumed by the producers them selves.
 It is by working for wages, z. C., for 1 less than the proceeds of our labor by creating a surplus value for people who might work, but do not work, and by thus creating private capital in their hands. that we ruin society and politics On the contrary, by working only as much as is needed by ail the useful work CTS, and by creating the necessary capi- | taI through our own contributions and doing away with ali private capitalism can we put an eud to all slavery, blood l sucking practices, revolutions, political corruption and avoidabIe misery in gen 1 cral, and we can procure all the means of true, universal and high education, and improve the universal morality and | brotherhood of men.
 This. in nutshell, is the theory of Socialism. It must be added, that such a new state of things will be effected more by the natural develop ment of economies than by our teachings. The evils cngendercd by private capital ism are so formidable and growing in so rapid a proportion, and the wisdom of statesmen and self-constituted rulers